How To Install mmark on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mmark on Debian 12.
What is mmark
mmark is:
Mmark is a powerful markdown processor written in Go, geared towards writing IETF documents. It is, however, also suited for writing complete books and other technical documentation, like the Learning Go book (https://miek.nl/go), Internet-Draft text output (https://miek.nl/go/learninggo-2.txt)) and RFCs.
It provides an advanced markdown dialect that processes file(s) to produce internet-drafts in XML RFC 7991 format. Mmark can produce xml2rfc (aforementioned RFC 7991), HTML5 output, and manual pages.
Mmark uses gomarkdown (https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown) which is a fork of blackfriday (https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/).
This package provides the /usr/bin/mmark executable binary and documentation.
There are three methods to install mmark on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mmark Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mmark using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mmark
Install mmark Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mmark using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mmark
Install mmark Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mmark using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mmark
How To Uninstall mmark on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mmark package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mmark
Uninstall mmark And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mmark and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mmark
Remove mmark Configurations and Data
To remove mmark configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mmark
Remove mmark configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mmark configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mmark
Dependencies
mmark have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mmark package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.